Colorado · Nonprofit
ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT
ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $215k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $299k
What Arctic Arts Project does
Mission
The mission of the Arctic Arts Project is to educate the world through a visual understanding of climate change and the solutions and adaptations that we need to survive. Through impactful imagery, backed by sound science and dedication, we educate the world through the world and create a new path to a sustainable future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education, policy, & outreach: creating multimedia learning tools for corporate industry and the general public, esg sustainability initiatives, and conservation. This includes a special initiative called polar partners programming, a channel for direct corporate involvement in education, sustainability programming and esg initiatives. Through strategic partnerships and public speaking forums, aap has given multimedia presentations about the project at dozens of major institutions including the jakarta climate conference, ncar, nasa, nsidc, arctic circle, american renewable energy conference, adobe, university of colorado, iucn, audubon and world nature congress.
$6,790 spent6% of program spendingMedia presentations, films, broadcast media and multimedia presentations to visually educate the world on the broad impact of climate change through impactful imagery, backed by sound science and dedication, in an effort to educate the world and create a new path to a sustainable future. Media presentations are artistically crafted through photography and video imagery created from the organization's expeditions to areas around the globe that are highly impacted by climate change. Award winning films, public art galleries, installations at airports and museums, traveling exhibitions.
$32,000 spent$1,694 earned by the program30% of program spendingOn location content creation and education visually demonstrating the effects of climate change
$68,278 spent64% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $107,068.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $388k to $274k (−29%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $6k → $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 97% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $300 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT?
- ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARCTIC ARTS PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing